Either it’s a sign of the Apocalypse, or (if Katherine’s current sense of humor is typical) an indication that a lot of 8-year-olds are using iPhones.
iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day » VentureBeat
Apple’s App Store is currently experiencing a plague of fart applications. Last week, I detailed one day in which at least 14 new fart apps were accepted into the store. And now, just in a quick search, it looks like there are about 50 apps all dedicated to making fart noises on your iPhone or iPod touch. Classy, I know, but why are there so many?
Because apparently there’s big money in fart apps — nearly $10,000 a day for the most popular ones.
Developer InfoMedia (Joel Comm), which makes iFart Mobile [iTunes link], has been releasing download statistics for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps every day since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday it hit the number one overall position with over 13,000 downloads. MacRumors ran the numbers, factoring out the 30 percent cut Apple takes from each sale, and determined that, yesterday alone, iFart Mobile made its developers $9,198.
Apparently this is the (silent but deadly) killer ap that Apple was looking for.
Well, my iPhone was sure an icebreaker at the last party where small children were present. I downloaded a “funny cartoon animal noises” and iCow and kept my young, impressionable audience entertained.
But then at work, someone has a fart machine with a remote, and we used to spend endless happy hours setting it up near a little bit of bait, like a coin or a bit of paper that looked like it was stuck under the cube divider.
When identifying catalog gifts she thought her cousins would enjoy, Katherine was quick to circle the Farting Santa (“Ho Ho Ho! Smells like Christmas!”), the Farting Lawn Gnome, and the Farting Digging-for-a-Bone Dog. Farting also seems to come up in most conversations.
I am hoping it’s a phase.
Heh, phase, yup, just keep teling yourself that . .. .